Answer 1 of 16: Why do many tourist, mostly the on om the USA, refer to Paris as Gay Paris?
Contents:
- 'GAY PAREE' TAK ON NEW MEANG
- GAY PARIS - PARIS FOM
- ENGLISH PRONUNCIATN OF GAY
- WHAT THEY MEAN WHEN THEY SAY ‘GAY PAREE’
- GAY
- 35 FRENCH GAY SLANG WORDS YOU NEED TO KNOW
- LE GAY PARIS
- HOW DO YOU SAY "GAY" SPANISH?
- [VOBULARY] GAY PARIS
- HOW TO SAY GAY DIFFERENT LANGUAG
'GAY PAREE' TAK ON NEW MEANG
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Paris tourism officials want to give new meang to the term "Gay Paree. "The French pal has always wooed visors wh s reputatn for fe dg and high fashn, and Paris ntually sh on s mystique as the land of love and, Cy Hall has a new strategy: sellg Paris as a leadg statn for gay travelers.
At the mayor's office and the tourism bure, which has fund a prs junket this week for journalists om Amerin gay publitns, officials ll the next ontier of tourism. "We want to create a gay iendly spir across the whole cy, " said Lrent Queige, one of the project's anizers at Cy Hall.
"It's an entire marketg mpaign voted to gay tourism: promotns, brochur, media trips, Web s, tour packag. Officials Paris say they are enuraged by a trend toward greater tolerance but are still battlg nservatism and Mayor Bertrand Delanoe, when elected last year beme the cy's first openly gay mayor and proudly led this summer's Gay Pri para.
GAY PARIS - PARIS FOM
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Delanoe uldn't attend a meetg last month to gurate the gay-iendly tourism mpaign bee he was recuperatg om a stabbg attack by a man who said he disliked overall challenge for officials workg on the mpaign is to tweak the image of a cy famo for photographs like the 1950 Robert Doisne snapshot of a man and woman stealg a kiss cintally ont of Cy have only begun turng on the project, which is not to be publicly lnched until June 2003. After nveng a meetg of experts on gay tourism last month at Cy Hall for an ial brastormg ssn, a marketg blz was born.
Travel agents that ter to gay clients are planng package tours to ci wh summer ftivals like Gay Pri para, which last June drew a rerd half-ln people.
Ias also clu disunt tours geared to the nightclub scene and other Paris is payg special attentn to the Amerin gay muny. An outdated gui lled Gay Friendly France is beg revamped for circulatn at French tourism offic the Uned Stat as of June 2003.
ENGLISH PRONUNCIATN OF GAY
The spellg is the pla old "Gay Paris" pronounced gay pah-ree. om the exprsn that began around 1900. It was ed to scribe the unrtricted and often hedonistic atmosphere that veloped when nservative rtrictns were removed, begng 1880. * how do you say gay paris *
The Maison la France Los Angel is workg wh Amerin tour operators and helped anize this week's fully paid trip to France for gay media on the theme of gay is hardly the first European pal to target the gay tourist.
Berl, London and Lisbon among others have geared marketg toward gay and lbian visors, particularly the Uned Stat, for years. "We're not dog discreetly, " said Natascha Kompatzki, a spokwoman for Berl's tourist office, addg that gays are "an important group" for the German pal.
WHAT THEY MEAN WHEN THEY SAY ‘GAY PAREE’
How to pronounce gay. How to say gay. Listen to the d pronunciatn the Cambridge English Dictnary. Learn more. * how do you say gay paris *
Berl's mayor, Kls Wowere, is openly gay and marched Berl's Gay Pri para this and Berl, like Paris, have proment gay districts, which are featured on their tourism Web s along wh listgs for gay-iendly hotels and those ci have a natural advantage, said Remi Calmon, a spokman for France's 600-member Natnal Unn of Gay Bs.
GAY
Translate Gay. See 5 thorative translatns of Gay Spanish wh example sentenc, phras and d pronunciatns. * how do you say gay paris *
"`The French are not always -- how shall I say this -- the nict people, " said Calmon, whose group is part of Paris' gay-iendly planng mtee. Details of how to make Paris more people-iendly were still beg worked out, he ia that has sparked great tert was dreamed up the small Loire Valley cy of Le Mans, bt known for s 24-hour to s own missn to attract gay tourism, Le Mans Cy Hall has drafted a "Lbian and Gay Friendly Wele Charter, " which they mailed to lol merchants this fall. Signatori paste rabow-lored stickers their wdows wh the msage "Wele to Mans" and a sey face to let ctomers know they are gay iendly.
Why do many tourist, mostly the on om the USA, refer to Paris as Gay Paris? Actually 's both;-) the French 'gai' has the same meang as the origal meang of the English 'gay', light-hearted and happy. The real qutn is how was the word gay -opted to mean homosexual?
gay, "full of joy or mirth, " om gai "gay, merry, " perhaps om Frank. ), but this is certaly too late; gey t "homosexual boy" is attted N.
35 FRENCH GAY SLANG WORDS YOU NEED TO KNOW
Frhen up your French vobulary wh our list of lorful French gay slang. Learn gay and lbian words to add variety to your vobulary! * how do you say gay paris *
Variant of gay) was ed as far back as 1893 for "young hobo, " one who is new on the road and ually the pany of an olr tramp, wh tame nnotatns. But Josiah Flynt ["Trampg Wh Tramps, " 1905] f gay t as, "An amatr tramp who works when his beggg urage fails him. ) was ed by homosexuals, among themselv, this sense sce at least 1920.
LE GAY PARIS
I'm lookg for the old Parisian exprsn Le Gay Paris. Do exist or is jt a figment of my imagatn?...I mean, a totally non-sexual but... * how do you say gay paris *
Rawson ["Wicked Words"] not a male prostute g gay reference to male homosexuals (but also to female prostut) London's notor Cleveland Street Sndal of 1889.
HOW DO YOU SAY "GAY" SPANISH?
Translate How do you say "gay" Spanish?. See thorative translatns of How do you say "gay" Spanish? Spanish wh d pronunciatns. * how do you say gay paris *
Ayto ["20th Century Words"] lls attentn to the ambiguo e of the word the 1868 song "The Gay Young Clerk the Dry Goods Store, " by U.
The word gay the 1890s had an overall tge of promiscuy -- a gay hoe was a brothel.
[VOBULARY] GAY PARIS
Dubbed "the cy of love," Paris is one of the more classic and luxur LGBT romance statns. Plan your gay Paris vatn wh Out. * how do you say gay paris *
Gay as a noun meang "a (ually male) homosexual" is attted om 1971. Paris is often lled “Gay Paree, ” wh “gay” meang happy, joyful and lively. The mil Can-Can (1953), wh mic and lyrics by Cole Porter, clud the song “Who said Gay Paree?
HOW TO SAY GAY DIFFERENT LANGUAG
” The movie Victor/Victoria (1982) clud the song “Gay Paree, ” sung by Robert Prton and wh mic by Henry Manci.
“Mak Bssels nearly as gay as Paris” was prted The Pennsylvania Packet, and Daily Advertiser (Philalphia, PA) on September 24, 1785. “The pk of gay Paris” was prted The Public Advertiser (London, UK) on September 6, 1790. ) have been, we’re rmed, gay Paree” was prted the New York Cy humor magaze Puck on September 3, 1879.